CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSSIn the November 1942 Matanikau Offensive, three Marine battalions trapped several hundred Japanese in a shrinking pocket west of Point Cruz. On 3 November, the Marines moved in to wipe out the last of the defenders.Private Ralph Naudorf, a member of the 5th Marines Regimental Weapons Company, was killed by a bullet through the heart. His body was buried in the Lunga area; although a map overlay was made of the precise location, his remains could not be found after the war.